So, apropos of nothing in particular, let’s say you wish to communicate privately with someone you’ve not communicated with privately before, for whatever reason you might have. And, wa…
Chat is minimum-viable anything
Chat is the minimum-viable tool for online organizing. Without complete control over our means of communication, our ability to organize depends entirely on the goodwill of the very same hegemonic incumbents which we seek to surpass.
Signal Messenger: Speak Freely
Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.
Quiet - Private messaging. No servers.
Quiet is available for all major platforms. (And eventually the web, too!)
Data Minimisation in Communication Protocols: A Formal Analysis...
With the growing amount of personal information exchanged over the Internet, privacy is becoming more and more a concern for users. One of the key principles in protecting privacy is data...
AT Protocol: explanation for non-techies? - Debbie's Blatherings - by Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Working on an explanation without tech jargon, for fellow creatives
InnerNets - Make internet personal again
Our mission is to bring the right information to the right person, in the right way.
“Nothing Is Ever Over” - AT Protocol
Writer, speaker, and researcher Erin Kissane joins Jim to trace how the social internet got here, what’s worth salvaging, and how we can do better by listening to people.
Exit Chat Control · Become Ungovernable
A practical field guide to escape Chat Control and reclaim your digital privacy: encrypted messaging, email, VPN, DNS, passwords, Linux, GrapheneOS, self-hosting. Free, open source, no tracking.
Texting a Random Stranger Better for Loneliness Than Talking to a Chatbot, Study Shows
A newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM.
better-email | sTeam Public
What i find interesting about this article is not the realization that MPI is like email, but the reverse, that human collaboration using messages is like MPI. The suggestion to use SMTP as a transport for things much more complex than emails is something worth looking at. It relates to my belief that the instant messaging difference does not come from the new protocols like XMPP for jabber, but from the new client interface that facilitates short messages in a conversational style. SMTP is equally (if not more) capable of transporting these messages. Sure, SMTP is not designed for "instant" messaging. but todays use of SMTP where my local SMTP server talks directly to your SMTP server, makes email is just as instant.
Turing Complete User
With the disappearance of the computer, something else is silently becoming invisible as well — the User.
Nobody Cares About Your Protocol | John ✦° | Offprint
Nobody joins a social network for its architecture. An honest look at why Bluesky lags Threads, plus real ideas to close the gap.
Clarifying: I feel like we just invented email addresses. And they’re tricky, I get it. But I’m pushing back on “wtf is the @ symbol even, nobody knows what ‘inbox’ or ‘smtp’ is, stop making it hard for normies” Instead of making atproto invisible, what if we made it worth the learning curve?
Eli Mallon
If your goal is to make atproto accessible to non-technical users I implore you to stop calling them “normies”
W Social, never short on amusing failures: blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-a-broken-ghost-town/
W Social: a Broken Ghost Town?
blog.elenarossini.comUnderrated "feature" of AIM / IRC: you could only send people messages if they were online! Sort of built-in backpressure. If you're busy, you won't sign on much, so you won't end up with a "big unread count". Feels so quaint now, like a little village. Say hi to your friends during passeggiata…
